Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
@cblgh yup! But not in the browser.
Shit, gotta start hoarding data in preparation of the web collapsing. Anyone got recommendations for a box I can just put in my home to reliably store a petabyte or two of data? 🤪
Snake feeding
@queenslight Ha ha, you should have seen the first few weeks I had her before I got the gloves. 🤪 Sadly this snake is elderly and wasn't socialized well for being held so she had a habit of trying to take my finger off. But it's really no big deal at all, they're small babies with little teeth that barely pierce the skin. 💜
Snake feeding
Lol! Just got my corn #snake out for feeding and it decided it didn't want to wait for its rat and chomped onto my gloved finger 🤣
She tried wrapping around my whole forearm whuch is pretty ambitious for her size. Had to do some gentle wrastling to untangle myself.
@trevorflowers Yeah I think ultimately of I can give people a bit more power over their computers it'd be enough. i'll try workshopping some ideas with the librarians.
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Hello #CoSocialCa!
A June 2023 update on the blog https://cosocial.info/cosocial-ca-update-june-2023/
* We’re currently at 62 paid co-op members
* We've got a great group of volunteers, could use some more across trust & safety, comms, & membership
* Follow #CoSocialHour
* Co-op Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be this fall; members will vote for a board and discuss major issues
Sometimes I forget I'm an open source weirdo, then I think about using a thing and am like "Hmmm, but it's not open source..." and then it clicks and I have a chuckle.
@trevorflowers I suppose. But it still feels off for me because it still depends on servers and hosting and an always-on internet connection. I suppose it's better than nothing.
LOL! The only thing more jarring than forgetting how loud my volume is when I start listening to a track is accidentally quitting my browser in the middle of a loud track to be thrown into silence.
Yikes, seems like #WebTorrent is having trouble reaching the Mainline #DHT today or something. :/
Not ideal when trying to run tests! Might be a good reason to set up some more bootstrap nodes.
Having a rough one focus-wise today.
Listening to #DeathGrips and fixing up #BitTorrent integration with #DistributedPress
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sanism, trans genocide
it really would have been better if more people questioned the entire concept of mental illness and the idea of it being grounds for removing someone's bodily autonomy, it's extremely fucked up and allows and directly causes so much horrific abuse, and the only people who say anything about it are psychiatric survivors and no one even listens to them
and now in Russia they are actively banning transition and the state is openly attempting to make sure all trans people are treated as mentally ill and "cured" in what must be horrific ways
and i wonder if this will eventually happen in the U.S.
but if your response is "this is bad because trans people aren't actually mentally ill" then fuck off, those "crazy schizos" you find so annoying don't deserve to be tortured either, and it should have been obvious that if society accepts human rights violations for any group (mentally ill, terrorists, etc.) then the next step is that label being used on anyone the establishment wants to get rid of, and if you reached adulthood without thinking of this then you don't think enough
if everyone collectively agreed to stand up for those who are most despised, like unhoused folks and people with highly stigmatized neurodivergences, we might not have to worry about being the next genocide target
but if you think some genocide is acceptable as long as it has an imposed limit that stops it from affecting you then seriously fuck off
and now in Russia they are actively banning transition and the state is openly attempting to make sure all trans people are treated as mentally ill and "cured" in what must be horrific ways
and i wonder if this will eventually happen in the U.S.
but if your response is "this is bad because trans people aren't actually mentally ill" then fuck off, those "crazy schizos" you find so annoying don't deserve to be tortured either, and it should have been obvious that if society accepts human rights violations for any group (mentally ill, terrorists, etc.) then the next step is that label being used on anyone the establishment wants to get rid of, and if you reached adulthood without thinking of this then you don't think enough
if everyone collectively agreed to stand up for those who are most despised, like unhoused folks and people with highly stigmatized neurodivergences, we might not have to worry about being the next genocide target
but if you think some genocide is acceptable as long as it has an imposed limit that stops it from affecting you then seriously fuck off
@0149170fe78b061ce6c7295fff2daa303f710ba17efd8fafd8343292b4295e84@mostr.pub Yeah, I might need to buy a chromebook to understand what it's even like for them.
@queenslight Yeah, I'm thinking about changing the approach. Sadly Agregore stuff only really works where you own hardware.
I'm thinking teaching how to hack sites with chrome devtools might be more useful overall.
@queenslight Oh yeah! I wonder if classes on programming exist for blind folks already. Most of my presentations are audio heavy and I try to post markdown docs alongside the slides, but defs the code part would take finesse to describe.
I feel like a bunch of text for tutorials and an audio call where folks can ask questions might work?
@andrew_chou I have a raw recording but I still need to clean it up and remove some nonsequiters and "ums". Been kinda busy and havn't gotten around to it. I could send you a private copy if you'd like though.
Been hanging out at local libraries to get a bit more aquainted with them.
Apparently one of them has a makerspace. Gonna see about running some workshops or something for teaching folks to program. The hardest part would be logistics since the library only really offers chromebooks for folks to borrow. :/
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People of the #fediverse, especially those creating various services, there are alternatives to HCAPTCHA when you ask people to create accounts or login. Despite HCAPTCHA's propaganda, HCAPTCHA is not truly accessible to #blind people. It requires us to give up our privacy if we choose the cookie option. The text alternative doesn't work most times. I just tried to sign up for a /kbin server at https://redit.buzz and wasted 30 mins on HCAPTCHA.
Please be #inclusive!
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we need more roving vendors. they shouldn't be solely the province of ice cream and scams.
@Azure @alcinnz @loke @lunch I've been thinking of using "component registries" which attach themswlves to a semantic web schema (by url string) and take in data passed as RDF the spit out UI elements. I was thinking html/css for rendering could still be useful to avoid making a new engine to start, but ideally it should spit out something more simple and platform agnostic. E.g the UI elements defined by ARIA roles.
A user could then mix and match components from their registry.
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
